This article is submitted in the spirit of knowing that a certain
measure of ignorance of a subject is better than knowing
things that aren't so.

Premises

The premise being put forth here is that the ancient humans
on earth lived peacefully in an Edenic environment under the
earlier steady and benign Saturnine sun. Their era was
essentially timeless, without days and nights nor seasons. Given
telepathic capability, they had no need for symbols, verbal
language, writing, technology nor many tools, since they
lived as hunter-gatherers in a world of plenty. It was like
a long vacation of leisure where the focus was on pleasure
seeking.

While their low energy sun and their low gravity
world−which was ensconced within Saturn's glow event
horizon−were drifting quietly through space and riding on a
sustaining Birkeland current, they had few needs and fewer
problems. They had little to no need for anything
artificial, including clothes, tools, utensils, dwelling
structures and weapons. They probably had games and sports but no balls,
bats, racquets, etc. Injuries and medical problems were
almost nonexistent, and conception was under the control of
the will rather than by just chance. Almost heaven!

Catastrophe

Suddenly, this system drifted into closer contact with the
much more electrically powerful Solar System. Saturn then
began to flare up into a nova, and disgorge plasma and muddy
material. The denizens of the earth were suddenly subjected
to devastation from their erstwhile benevolent source of
energy. In a series of flare-ups and emissions, untold
numbers of men and animals were smashed,
drowned, blinded, burnt, and irradiated with harmful to lethal ionizing
radiation. The ecology and environment were ruined, never to
fully recover to its previous Edenic status. Macroscopic life forms on the
earth were decimated, and the concomitant trauma to all
aspects of human life and the associated dramatic forms seen
in the sky were burned into our collective
consciousness.

These powerful symbols include all the major religious
ones−the cross, swastika, star of David, yin yang,, star and
crescent, the Ankh−and many others that are global in scope.
Various weird shapes of plasma formations are documented win
countless petroglyphs on all continents, and are reflected
in the "alien" Neolithic art themes.

The fantastical ancient mythological beasts also have their
foundation in the plasma forms seen in the sky. These
include the Cyclops, dragons, chimeras, the Gorgon, the
Griffin,the Hydra, manticore, the Medusa, the Minotaur the
Nemean Lion, Pegasus, the Phoenix, thunderbird, Typhon, et
al,